Johnny Cafora

John "Johnny Roastbeef" Cafora (died March 1979) was a parking lot owner in Downtown Brooklyn and an associate of the Lucchese crime family. In 1979, Cafora and his wife Joanna were murdered after the Lufthansa heist, as their high spending drew attention to the heist crew.

Biography
Johnny Cafora lived in Brooklyn, New York City, marrying Joanna Cafora and owning a parking lot in Downtown Brooklyn. Cafora became involved in money laundering for the Lucchese crime family, for which he was incarcerated at Lewisburg in Pennsylvania; he met Jimmy Conway in prison. During the Lufthansa heist, Cafora was charged with laundering the money through his legitimate parking lots. However, his indiscreet, greedy lifestyle and insistence on informing his wife about gang business led to Conway ordering both to be murdered after the heist's conclusion. Within days of the heist, both of their bodies were found in his wife's new Cadillac Fleetwood just blocks from the air cargo center of the JFK International Airport in Queens.